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As if the change to Daylight Savings Time this past weekend wasn’t enough to throw off your body rhythm, a geophysicist at NASA reports that thanks to last week’s earthquake in Japan the day is now a little shorter. Richard Gross says the shift in the Earth’s mass caused the planet’s rotation to speed up by 1.6 microseconds, making for a slightly shorter day. Had I known, I would have only set the clock forward 59 minutes and 59.9999984 seconds.